Structure for loading cars



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2 Sheets-Sheet 1. J. POREMAN.

. STBUUTURE POR'LOADING CARS. No. 302,720. Patented July 29, 1884..

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J. POREMAN. STRUCTURE FOR LOADING CARS.

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JOHN FOREMAN, OF POTTSTOVVN, PENNSYLVANIA.

STRUCTURE FOR LOADING CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,720, dated July29,188

Application filed June 16, 1884.

To. all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN FOREMAN, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Pottstown, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain Improvements in Structures for Loading Cars, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention consists of apparatus, fullydescribed and claimedhereinafter, for loading cars with coal and other granular material.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1, Sheet 1, is a vertical sectionof my improved apparatus for loading ears; Fig. 2, Sheet 2, the same asFig. 1, excepting as regards the position of the movable chute; and Fig.3 a perspective view of the said movable chute.

Near a railway-track, a, is erected a structure, A, the upper portion,b, of which is a bin for receiving the coal,which has to be loaded intoa car, B.

Forming part of the structure A are beams D, to which, or to rails onwhich, are adapted the flanged wheels (I on the axles e e of a truck,

E, which carries the movable chute F. (Shown most clearly in theperspective view, Fig. 3.) The movable chute consists of a framecomposed of the opposite side pieces, ff, the spouts g and h, andshields i and j, and to this frame is fitted an inclined screen, G,bounded laterally by side strips, 70 7c, and having preferably twooutlets, m m, as shown in Fig. 3. The frame of the movable chute issupported partly on the front axle, e, of the truck, and partly on pins12, one of which is passed through each of the two posts, a a, securedto the truck at the rear of the same, each post having a number ofholes, into any one of which the supporting-pin may be introduced as thedesired inclination of the chute may suggest. A weight or weights may beplaced in a box, g, at the rear of the frame, to keep it down on thepins 19.

The bottom of the bin 2) consists of two in clined planes, t t, betweenwhich is the outlet at, communicating with a fixed chute, H, the bottomof which consists of a screen, 1); and to this chute is pivoted asegmental gate, w, which can be raised, as shown in Fig. 2,when coal hasto escape from the bin, or lowered, as shown in Fig. 1, when the escapeof coal from the bin has to be prevented.

When coal has to be loaded into the car B,

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the dust and small particles of coal falling through the screen c, whichforms the bottom of this chute, and being directed to the bottom of thestructure A by the spout y. The coal will pass onto the screen G of themovable chute, the dust being directed by the spout it into the bottomof the structure A, while the coal passes through the two spouts, m m,into the car, throughout which it may be distributed by suitableinclincdtroughs,which may be directed from either outlet to any part of the'ear.

WVhen a car has been loaded, the movable chute can be retracted into thestructure A, so as to make way for another car.

I have hitherto referred to the loading of cars with coal; but myinvention maybe used for loading cars with grain and other granularmaterial. When the. granular material re quires no screening,non-perforated inclined planes may be substituted'for the screens G and7).

The screen or spoutGis pivoted to the chute F at the point :0, so thatit can be swung laterally in either direction, in case the car has notbeen stopped with its doorway exactly inline with the chute.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination of a structure, A, and itsbin 1) with a movable chute, F, having wheels adapted to atrack on thesaid structure, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the truck E with the chute-frame F, supportedpartly by a fixed portion of the truck and partly by devices whichpermit the said frame to be raised and lowered, substantially asspecified.

3. The combination of the chute F with a screen or spout, G, having twooutlets, in m, substantially as specified.

4. The bin and its opening .u, and the permanent inclined chute H, incombination with a movable chute carried by a truck, substantially asset forth.

5. The combination of the bin and chute H with the pivoted gate 10,substantially as described.

6. The combination of the bin, the chute H,

' and its screen 2), with the movable chute and its spout g,substantially as specified.

7. The combination of the bin and its chute H with the movable chute,its screen G, and

5 spout h, substantially as set forth.

8. The combination of the movable chute F with the screen or spout G,pivoted thereto,

so as to be swung laterally thereon, as set forth.

9. The combination of the bin 1), having an IO inclined and valvedoutlet, with a truck movable beneath the bin, and. having an inclined tothis specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' JoHN FOREMAN.

Witnesses:

J oHN M. CLAYTON, HARRY SMITH.

